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With help from purple prosthetic hand, Hailey Dawson continues her first-pitch tour of major league ballparks

Hailey Dawson, an 8-year-old from Henderson, Nev., who was born without three fingers on her throwing hand, threw out the ceremonial first pitch for the Rockies’ series finale against the San Francisco Giants on Wednesday night at Coors Field.

It marked the ninth major-league ballpark in which Dawson, whose missing fingers and underdeveloped thumb and pinky finger are from a condition called Poland syndrome, threw out the first pitch. She did so with the help of a custom, Rockies-themed prosthetic hand.

“I don’t get nervous,” she said pregame in the dugout, dabbing occasionally on her purple prosthetic.